Thursday, May 19, 2011

After last night's confounding loss, it's hard to muster up any enthusiasm for tonight's inevitable disappointment — even if the Giants' losingest pitcher is starting. It's not even close to the All-Star break and the Dodgers are already making a beeline for the division cellar. About the only positives of this season: Don Mattingly gets to ride with his managerial training wheels without anything on the line, and Frank McCourt is on his way out. It's a sacrificial year, people. Meh.

That screws up my "healthy" roster. I tried to figure out what 25-man roster (without fantasy trades or additional call-ups from the minors) would provide me with, if not a successful team to watch, at least a team that isn't so dreadful. Here it is anyway:

SPKershawBillsKurodaLillyGarland

RPBroxtonJansenGuerrierElbertPadillaHawksworthKuo(If Kuo is done for the year, Macdougal can have is spot. Now with Padilla in question, I'd give his slot to Guerra.)

CBarajasEllis

IFLoneyUribeFurcalBlake

OFEthierKempSands

BenchCarrollGwynn ThamesOne of either Miles or Gibbons. (Oddly, I'm leaning Miles.)

they're playing the seventh inning stretch in the background of the radio feed, and I could have sworn the crowd just said "Well it's root root root for the Dodgers, if they don't win it is to be expected because this lineup is absolutely putrid".